Traveling in Tornado prone areas
Will be traveling to SD the last of May. We are traveling in a Ram 3500 Dually with a 5th wheel. My husband who is a firefighter/EMT will have a weather radio. He has been West several times with Wild...
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Turtle n Peeps wrote:
This has been talked about many time on here.
Here are the odds:
Auto deaths in the US every year= Over 300,000. :E
Tornado deaths in the US every year= Less than 70.
You are traveling on the road with an RV. Your chances of being killed while on the highway in your RV are way, way, way, way, way, way, higher than even seeing a tornado let alone being killed by one.
The storm chasers try their best to run into tornados and even they, with all the high tech equipment they have; have a REALLY hard time doing that.
Do the best you can; try to be careful and move on with life. Life is a fatal disease anyway. :E
I think your facts are a bit skewered. You are way low. And if you factor in
property damage, tornado are one of the most devastating natural phenomena.
2011 Tornado Fatalities
